Germany

Ice Skating
Canada

EBU deal brings 10 per cent rights increase
Football
Europe

EM.Sport acquisitions cover rights management, production, distribution
Boxing
Europe

Seven senior executives have left since the Lagardère takeover
Football
Asia

MP & Silva, Sportfive and Rai Trade agencies estimated to have brought in about €100 million overall for 2007-08 season

Football
Europe

Banker’s letter of comfort produced last week by Leo Kirch in support of his deal for German football’s Bundesliga rights
Football
Africa

English Premier League to receive £74 million over three years from sale of mobile and internet clip rights

Basketball
Africa

Football: Swiss pay-television broadcaster Teleclub acquired the live rights for all matches in Germany’s Bundesliga 1 and Bundesliga 2 in a one-year sublicensing deal with German pay-broadcaster Premiere. 
Cycling
Belgium

Audiences fall in Germany and Switzerland, but rise elsewhere
Football
Europe

MP & Silva suing over collapsed negotiations for €7 million three-year deal, makes complaint to German anti-trust authority
Football
Africa

Football: South African public-service broadcaster SABC sublicensed the rights for 143 matches of the Premier Soccer League, the country’s top-tier football league, from pay-broadcaster SuperSport. 
Europe

British grand prix attracts highest audience since 2001 despite clash with Wimbledon tennis final

Football
Africa

Football: Italian public-service broadcaster Rai agreed a deal with the Sportfive agency for the rights to football’s Euro 2008 tournament.

Football
Australia

Television viewing for the 2006 World Cup in Germany smashed viewing records in several countries in Europe and elsewhere.

Football
Europe

BSkyB subscribers increase by 77,000 as last quarter sees pay-television growth in three of five European markets

Football
Europe

World Cup winners Italy could get a 20-per-cent increase in television-rights fees.

American Football
Brazil

Boxing: German public-service broadcaster ARD acquired the rights for a minimum 12 fights a year from Sauerland Promotions in a four-year deal, 2008 to 2011, renewing a previous contract
Cycling
Europe

German audiences crash, but ratings in France hold up

Badminton
Asia

Football: Spanish agency Mediapro signed a deal worth close to €100m (£68m) per season from 2009-10 to 2013-14, for the television rights of the G-30, the group of 25 first and second division Liga fo…